Slavery And Reform In West Africa
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Slavery and Reform in West Africa
Author | : Trevor R. Getz |
Publsiher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2004-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780821441831 |
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A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region’s role in Atlantic commercial networks underwent a gradual transition from principally that of slave exporter to producer of “legitimate goods” and dependent markets, institutions of slavery became battlegrounds in which European abolitionism, pragmatic colonialism, and indigenous agency clashed. In Slavery and Reform in West Africa, Trevor Getz demonstrates that it was largely on the anvil of this issue that French and British policy in West Africa was forged. With distant metropoles unable to intervene in daily affairs, local European administrators, striving to balance abolitionist pressures against the resistance of politically and economically powerful local slave owners, sought ways to satisfy the latter while placating or duping the former. The result was an alliance between colonial officials, company agents, and slave-owning elites that effectively slowed, sidetracked, or undermined serious attempts to reform slave holding. Although slavery was outlawed in both regions, in only a few isolated instances did large-scale emancipations occur. Under the surface, however, slaves used the threat of self-liberation to reach accommodations that transformed the master-slave relationship. By comparing the strategies of colonial administrators, slave-owners, and slaves across these two regions and throughout the nineteenth century, Slavery and Reform in West Africa reveals not only the causes of the astounding success of slave owners, but also the factors that could, and in some cases did, lead to slave liberations. These findings have serious implications for the wider study of slavery and emancipation and for the history of Africa generally.
Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa
Author | : Martin A. Klein |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1998-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521596785 |
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A history of slavery during the 19th and 20th centuries in three former French colonies.
Fighting the Slave Trade
Author | : Sylviane Anna Diouf |
Publsiher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2003-10-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780821415160 |
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Annotation Explores in a systematic manner the strategies Africans used to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade and how they assaulted it.
Reconfiguring Slavery
Author | : Benedetta Rossi |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-02-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781846315640 |
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A fascinating collection that advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its recent reconfigurations.
West African Narratives of Slavery
Author | : Sandra E. Greene |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2011-02-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253222947 |
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Slavery in Africa existed for hundreds of years before it was abolished in the late 19th century. Yet, we know little about how enslaved individuals, especially those who never left Africa, talked about their experiences. Collecting never before published or translated narratives of Africans from southeastern Ghana, Sandra E. Greene explores how these writings reveal the thoughts, emotions, and memories of those who experienced slavery and the slave trade. Greene considers how local norms and the circumstances behind the recording of the narratives influenced their content and impact. This unprecedented study affords unique insights into how ordinary West Africans understood and talked about their lives during a time of change and upheaval.
Slavery and its abolition in French West Africa
Author | : Paul E. Lovejoy,Alexander Sydney Kanya-Forstner |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105021566638 |
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Slave Owners of West Africa
Author | : Sandra E. Greene |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2017-05-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253026026 |
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In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests, religious beliefs, and responses to colonial rule in an attempt to understand why the subjects reacted to the demise of slavery as they did. Greene emphasizes the notion that the decisions made by these individuals were deeply influenced by their personalities, desires to protect their economic and social status, and their insecurities and sympathies for wives, friends, and other associates. Knowing why these individuals and so many others in West Africa made the decisions they did, Greene contends, is critical to understanding how and why the institution of indigenous slavery continues to influence social relations in West Africa to this day.
Domestic Slavery in West Africa with Particular Reference to the Sierra Leone Protectorate 1896 1927
Author | : John Grace |
Publsiher | : New York : Barnes & Noble Books |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105036096274 |
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